Where I live

[lesliepear]

http://tinyurl.com/plel (not our building however)

184,900.00 for a 1 bedroom. The 2 bedroom 2 bath on the third floor above sold for 230K very recently. (It's the same as ours and was fixed up...yet the new owner decided to replace all the floors with wood, redo the cabinets and junk the stove (which was fairly new).)

Sigh.

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[ginky.livejournal.com]

OMG.

Wow.

:/

We're paying 130K for our 2134sqft house, including all the upgrades we did.

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

Would love to move to Texas but our friends and relatives are here :(

[ginky.livejournal.com]

Yep. Then there's the total lack of seasons here which sucks.

[msmichelle.livejournal.com]

WOW! Sounds like it might be time to sell and cash in on profits/move those funds to another real estate investment.
But, then, I'm a little impulsive too.

But a new home is expensive

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

Dh paid 116K for the place (with some furniture in 1992). Nice profit.

But we have to finish fixing it up - junking the 70's wallpaper in the bathroom, retiling the moldy master bath shower. The kitchen needs paint/wallpaper, a new ceiling fan and to replace the 70's stove since all the other appliances were replaced.

Here's one I'd like to checkout: http://tinyurl.com/pljj (369K my DH thinks is expensive!)

Re: But a new home is expensive

[msmichelle.livejournal.com]

Yowsa! That is pricey compared to here (by about 100K, I'd estimate). But, you are suburban NYC and that value on a house will only increase in that market, I'd guess.
Good luck getting your repairs done. A guy in my office is starting from scratch, basically, on his fixer upper house he bought. He's single so it's manageable. It's harder with kids.

are you ready for this?

[yeoww.livejournal.com]

I live in the Bay Area of California and our house, which is 1433 square feet, 4 bed/2 bath and still somewhat in fixer-upper status, appraised at $475K.

The house I like is $765K. Dream on.